moselleとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from French Moselle, from Latin Mosella.

発音

• IPA: /məʊˈzɛl/
• 韻: -ɛl

固有名詞

Moselle

1. A left tributary of Rhine, flowing through the departments of Vosges, Meurthe-et-Moselle and Moselle in northeastern France, through Luxembourg, and through the states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland, Germany.
2. A department of Grand Est, France.

派生語

• Meurthe-et-Moselle
• Pagny-sur-Moselle

名詞

Moselle (countable and uncountable, plural Moselles)

1. A light white wine, made from Riesling grapes originating in the valley of this river.
   • 1790, James Boswell, edited by Danziger & Brady, Boswell: The Great Biographer, Yale, published 1989, page 28:

     I drank too much moselle, imagining it a mere diuretic.